Scientific communication

There is no getting away from it. It is technically possible to carry out the scientific revolution in India, Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, within fifty years. There is no excuse for Western man not to know this. And not to know that this is the one way out through the three menaces which stand in our way — H-bomb war, over-population, the gap between the rich and the poor. This is one of the situations where the worst crime is innocence.
— C. P. Snow (1905 – 1980), The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Rede Lecture, 1959.

But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
— Sir Francis Darwin (1848 – 1925), Eugenics Review, 6:1, 1914.

Science says the first word on everything and the last word on nothing.
— Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) Things of the Infinite: Autobiography.

Eureka! [I have found!]
— Attributed to Archimedes (287 – 212 BCE) by Vitruvius Pollio in his De Architectura, published early in the first century CE.

Whereas there is nothing more necessary for promoting the improvement of philosophical Matters, than the communicating to such, as apply their Studies and Endeavours that way, such things as are discovered or put in practice by others; It is therefore thought fit to employ the Press, as the most proper way to gratifie those, whose engagement in such Studies, and delight in the advancement of Learning and profitable Discoveries, doth entitle them to the knowledge of what this Kingdom, or other parts of the World, so, from time to time afford.
— Henry Oldenburg (1617? – 1677), introducing the first issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

If all the books in the world, except the ‘Philosophical Transactions’, were destroyed, it is safe to say that the foundations of physical science would remain unshaken, and that the cast intellectual progress of the last two centuries would be largely, though incompletely, recorded.
— Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895), On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge, 1866.

To see a chemical experiment gives an attractiveness to a definition of chemistry, and fills it with a significance which it would never have had without the pleasant shock of an unusual sequence such as the transformation of a solid into gas, and vice versa.
— ‘George Eliot’ (Mary Ann Evans) (1819 – 1880), Story-Telling.

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